Emmy
award winning New York City journalist David Shuster, who has
anchored for both MSNBC and Al Jazeera, has just tweeted that ranking
operatives of the Democratic National Committee have warned the
public to expect an emergency meeting to consider replacing Hillary
Clinton as Democratic presidential nominee.

‘The
Democratic National Committee shall have general responsibility for
the affairs of the Democratic Party between National Conventions,
subject to the provisions of the Charter and to the resolutions or
other official actions of the National Convention. This
responsibility shall include, but not be limited to … Filling
vacancies in the nominations for the office of the President and Vice
President.’

That’s
right- the DNC holds the authority to fill vacancies in the
nomination for the presidency. And you thought the Democratic Party’s
primary process could have been a little more democratic.

Who
would replace Clinton? Bernie Sanders, perhaps, seeing as he was the
runner up in the race for the nomination; the replacement could also
be Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine, among essentially every other
major Democratic figure in the United States, from US Senator
Elizabeth Warren to Vice President Joe Biden.

Would
replacing Clinton be within reason? Yes.

For
hours on Sunday the public waited, wondering what had went wrong with
the presidential nominee’s health, until late Sunday afternoon
finally saw a statement released from the Clinton campaign featuring
Clinton’s doctor, Dr. Lisa Bardack, who said that she was diagnosed
with pneumonia last Friday.